Volta Ciclista a Catalunya 2019, March 25-31

Page 7 - Get up to date with the latest news, scores & standings from the Cycling News Community.
Tonton said:
Considering how the GC contenders were wussies during stage one, it could inspire an aggressive rider to give it a shot and see what happens. I hope for a repeat of stage eleven of last year's Vuelta, if you see what I mean ;) . But I fear too much defensive riding and a 30 or so riders bunch in the final 2-3 kilometers. And De Gendt will be one of them.

Although, as we have seen before, Froome may attack solo and win the whole thing :eek: . Nothing will surprise me at this point.

I don't think it will be the case. Movistar wants this race, and they will set a fast pace to drop De Gendt as quick as possible, and dynamics of the race depends on when will De Gendt drop. If this happens early while still Amador or Verona are working, then things will look good for Movistar. But if happens late, while Soler or Carapaz are on duty, then attacks will fly left and right from the likes of Yates, Lopez , Bardet.., and the race will be very hard to conrtol and wide open.
 
De Gendt will pace himself. I think he might be able to keep it under 2 minutes. The other guys need to go fast and early. Just hope De Gendt drops time fast, so he will just give up on it.

If they just going at a steady pace and attacks happen in the last bit of the climb, he not gonna drop that much time I think. Especially if he start feeling he can actually be able to pull it off, by not dropping that much time.
 
Climb profile again:

D2mgPctX4AUhBKH.jpg